December 31, 2018
Hello, friends and amazing readers! I wanted to take a moment to sit down, breathe, and reflect not only on last week, but on the year that we’ve had here at Speculative Chic. I know that we usually throw the roundup party on Saturdays, but given that it was a holiday week, and that this is New Year’s Eve, I…
December 31, 2018
Welcome to the very end of 2018! For the past few years, we have challenged our contributors to come up with a goal for the coming year. Those goals have varied from “read a certain book” to “consume ALL of the Game of Thrones content currently available.” You’d be surprised and perhaps a little amused that those of us who…
December 28, 2018
It’s so very close to the end of 2018! We are packing away the year, clearing the debris, and preparing for the coming of 2019! May it be an excellent year in all things speculative fiction! We are looking ahead at the year to come, and we cannot help but get excited about what kinds of media will be coming…
December 28, 2018
Welcome to the Speculative Chic Book Club! Each month, we invite you to join us in reading a book that is voted on by YOU, our readers. Following a short review, please feel free to discuss the book in the comments! The Sunlight Pilgrims (2016) Written by: Jenni Fagan Genre: Dystopian science fiction Length: 272 pages (Kindle) Publisher: Hogarth Why…
December 27, 2018
Each Monday, we are pleased to present someone’s favorite things! We’re madly in love with so many things and we love sharing those things with the whole world. However, once per year, we convene to discuss the things that disappointed us. Perhaps it was something that we had been anticipating and we felt let down by its reality. Maybe it…
December 27, 2018
Minimum Wage Magic (2018) Written by: Rachel Aaron Genre: Cyberpunk, Fantasy Pages: 286 pages (ebook) Series: Book 1 in the DFZ series Publisher: Aaron/Back (self published) Why I Chose It: Minimum Wage Magic is the first book in a spin off series. As a huge fan of the original series, Heartstrikers, this was a “must buy” for me. The Premise:…
December 26, 2018
The year is nearly finished! You may recall that quite a few of us set ourselves some goals for the year with our 2018 Resolution Project. How did we do? Let’s talk to a few of our contributors and find out!
December 26, 2018
This year I resolved to read more classic science fiction and fantasy, hopefully making a dent in that stack of books I really should have read by now. Mostly because they should be good books, but also to be better informed about my genre and its history. I decided that this meant reading six science fiction and six fantasy books written…
December 25, 2018
For my 2018 Resolution Project, I decided to take a page out of Lane’s book and do my own Silver Screen Resolution (hence the Take Two part of the title). There are a lot of movies out there I haven’t seen but feel like I should have, or movies that I’ve simply wanted to see and have yet to get…
December 25, 2018
Exactly two years ago, I wrote up a post about my favorite TV shows centered around female protagonists. I think it’s time for an update. When I was a kid – we’re going there – there were very few TV shows about women. And three of them (that I can think of at the moment) were spinoffs of shows that…